Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/288624 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] Social Indicators Research [ISSN:] 1573-0921 [Volume:] 150 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Springer Netherlands [Place:] Dordrecht [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 219-242
Publisher: 
Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht
Abstract: 
China is undergoing a campaign which is called “The Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy” to eradicate extreme poverty from rural China until 2020. Though poverty in rural China has been studied intensively in different objective dimensions, little attention has been paid to poverty line settings and subjective poverty, which are hinged to the policy effects. In order to fill in the research gap, this study employs a nationally representative survey of rural households in 2016, to measure subjective poverty in rural China, and analyze the determinants as well. Our results indicate that the mean subjective poverty line of the rural households is 8297 yuan per capita, which is far higher than the national poverty line (2800 yuan). Statistically, 29% of the surveyed rural households who are not objectively poor feel subjectively poor. The objective poverty line cannot fully reflect the subjective poverty perception. Thus, how to reduce the subjective poverty perception could be a major policy agenda in rural China after 2020, when extreme poverty is no longer a problem.
Subjects: 
Rural China
Poverty lines
Subjective poverty
Objective poverty
The Targeted
Poverty alleviation policy
JEL: 
D63
I32
I38
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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